Clear Windows 7 notification area icon cache
Who is this article for?
Incydr, no.
CrashPlan for Enterprise, no.
Code42 for Enterprise, yes.
CrashPlan for Small Business, no.
Overview
After uninstalling the CrashPlan app on Windows 7, the reference to the tray icon remains present in the notification area settings screen.
Affects
CrashPlan app on Windows 7
Before you begin
Make sure you have completely uninstalled CrashPlan.
Recommended solution
Removing the CrashPlan tray icon notification area setting requires you to shut down Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) and remove two registry keys. Windows will automatically recreate the tray cache after this.
Steps
- Create a .bat file by one of these methods:
- Download clearnotificationicon.bat
or - Open a text editor such as Notepad, enter the commands below, and save it as a .bat file
- Download clearnotificationicon.bat
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify" /v IconStreams /f reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify" /v PastIconsStream /f start "Shell Restarter" /d "%systemroot%" /i /normal explorer.exe
- Double-click the .bat file to run it
Running the .bat file will shut down explorer.exe, remove the required registry entries, and then restart explorer.exe. After that, Windows will recreate the cache and CrashPlan will no longer appear in the system tray notification icon settings.